Recent content by sedrosken

This could be a gamechanger in getting a baseline image setup quickly and easily.

I've been using library sharing to share my own (not insignificant, ~490 titles now) library with my sister for years now. One thing I like to do is buy old games when they get cheap on Steam or GoG, and then grab more appropriate install media for the target platforms where appropriate and use...

It's not -- if I have to swap the board, I'm more likely to rebuild with my X470 board with the questionable SATA ports. I've sent the 3060 and 5700X I had on to a friend who needed it more a little while back, and my 1070 and 5500 are going out to another friend in similar straits sometime next...

Ivy Bridge with questionable-to-nonexistent ReBAR and potential UEFI GOP issues. Plus, the Arc is just wholly inappropriate for this class of hardware. And it consumes more power than I'd like. I also play a lot of older titles that still act strangely on first-gen Arc. I imagine I'd get a...

You're pretty much bang-on. DRAM and to a lesser extent NAND prices are in crisis right now and only getting worse and GPUs have been insanity for years, even at the low-mid end. I will say, if it's a light-use machine, just stick with the integrated graphics. An APU is 100% fine for 99.97% of...

What ISN'T working so hot is my old RX480. It has full driver support but I think my particular example must just be dying. Stressing it out and then asking it to use its encoding block to stream is a good way to make it corrupt the display, lock up the machine and then first completely shut off...

I used Poweramp back when I was an Android user. I think there's a port of foobar2000 as well.

We're in a civil war already, we just don't know it yet.

As long as what I'm doing doesn't have a hard AVX2 requirement, I'm having a hard time finding a workload that really, truly crushes it underfoot, even at stock clocks. Sure, my 1135g7 takes a fifth of the power to run ~10-15% faster, but that's basically a full decade removed, I'd sure hope it...

I've got an i7-2600 box up on the bench right now testing its RAM after I installed an updated UEFI a friend put together for me that fixes UEFI in general (these Sandy boxes were early days for that, yet) and curiously allows for booting NVME, and after I went down a few little rabbitholes with...

Yeah, I ran it on my 16GB SLGO2 and noticed a pretty decent drop in allocated RAM at the desktop, though a modern web browser still soon renders that moot. I hate this timeline.

Something like this is what I have in mind. I don't LOVE giving anyone a machine with less than 16GB of RAM anymore, but it sounds like her needs are pretty basic, and this will satisfy basic needs pretty well especially for the money. If she plans to do anything but update Windows and a web...

7 is your best bet. 10 will probably work but be a trainwreck -- 11 will need Rufus shenanigans to get it to even install, maybe, though on Core2 I honestly don't know if you'll run into some illegal instruction messages. I second Merc on this. Their money is better spent on a Chromebook or an...

AWS is still Amazon, which means it's still really not all that sovereign, is it?

On the contrary, I doubt it'll be very funny at all when Trump's bruised ego makes him declare war on every country that kicks us out. The American century of humiliation continues apace.